Apparatus for supporting casks or barrels.



No. 643,298. 7 Patented Feb. l3, I900. C. LAMPITT, A. J. CABLILE & C.SIMKIN. APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING CASKS 0R BARRELS.

(Application filed Nov. 17, 18:59.

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CHARLES LAMPITT, OF LONDON, ARTHUR JOHN OARLILE, OF BURTON-ON TRENT, ANDOUTHBERT SIMKIN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING CASKS OR BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,298, dated February13, 1900. Application filed November 17, 1899. Serial No. 737,364. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, CHARLES LAMPITT, residing at 8 Crescent road, WoodGreen, London, N., ARTHUR JOHN OARLILE, residing at 270 Branstone road,Burton-on-Trent, in the county of Stafford, and CUTHBERT SIMKIN, re-

siding at 7 Southampton Row,London, W. 0.,

England, subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain,haveinvented a new and useful device or apparatus to be used in multiple forsupporting casks and barrels externally when exposed to internalpressure, (for which we have applied for a patent in Great Britain, No.20,478, dated September 28, 1898,) of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to a device or apparatus to be used in multiplefor encompassing the staves and supporting externally casks and barrelswhen subjected to high internal pressure; and it consists of certainimprovements upon and a modification of the bulgewise supporting devicedescribed and shown in our previous application for the grant of LettersPatent in the United States of America, Serial No. 714,408, dated April25, 1899.

Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan or top view, of same Ourinvention consists of a pair of approximately semicircular metalliccastings Aand B, pivotally connected at a point C and adapted to openfrom each other (as indicated by the dotted outline of A in Fig. 1) tofacilitate the fixation of same upon and in such a manner as to surroundand support any part of the height of a cask or barrel D when the freeends of A and B are brought together and connected by a bolt and nut E,the portion B being provided with a footing F for supporting the whole.

At suitable intervals along the frames A and B we provide any number ofholes G, through which are passed hollow rods H, each adapted to berotated by the means of awheel or handle J and secured in position byaflange K, the inner ends of the said tubes or hollow rods being providedwith female screwthreads, with which engage the outer ends of threadedbolts L, the inner ends of the said bolts being connected to metallic orother blocks M each in the form of a sector of a circle, so as to fitapproximately the external formation of the cask or barrel D and theinternal formation of the frames A and B.

The frames A and B having been placed around the cask in the desiredposition and secured by the bolt and nut E, the handles J would berotated in proper order until all the blocks M abut firmly and evenlyand with equal pressure against the cask D, thus securing and supportingcircumferentially that part of the cask at which the said apparatus hasbeen fixed, as described, and thereby relieving any strain upon thehoops of the cask, and so rendering it impossible for the cask to burstat that part under almost any internal pressure.

The cask may be surrounded by any num* ber of such devices, even to theextent of their being in touch with each other; but whatever may be thenumber employed the center one, or that covering the bung-hole of thecask, may have its section A so arranged as to provide a plate or blockN, having a cen tral hole P, adapted to receive and hold a plug or otherdevice for closing said bung-hole or for receiving and holding either ofthe bunghole-closing devices described and shown in the specificationand drawings of our said previous application for a patent, Serial No.714,408, dated April 25, 1899. The said plate or block N may have anynumber of set-screws R, the inner ends of which are each in swiveledconnection with blocks S, shaped to fit the cask D and support thebung-hole stave.

The heads of the cask may be supported externally by the head-supporting devices described and indicated by the reference-letters O, O, D, D,E, H, and a in the specification and drawings of our said previousapplication for patent, Serial No. 714,408, dated April 25, 1899.

Having now fully described our invention and the manner in which thesame is to be employed for the purposes stated, what we claim, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a means for supporting casks and barrels externally when exposed tointernal pressure, the combination of a circular frame composed of twoparts A and B hinged together at O, and bolted together at E, and havingIn witness whereof Wehave hereunto set our to any number of holes G,each provided with hands in presence of two witnesses. a hollow rod H,in connection with a threaded bolt L, attached to a shaped block M, thesaid g fifigg ggiiggg 5 holes G being adapted to be rotated by wheelsCUTHBERT SIMKIN or handles J for placing the blocks M in close abutmentwith the outer surface of a cask or Witnesses:

barrel D substantially as herein described GEORGE THOMAS HYDE,

and shown by the drawings appended. HENRY CONRAD HEIDE.

